It’s a shame that the Premier of North West racialises Coligny murder case
8 May 2017
The court's decision to grant bail to the two men of Coligny who are on trial for the murder of a teenage boy, is based on sound legal principles and in the light thereof it is regrettable that the premier of North West is trying to depict the incident as racism, says Michal Groenewald, leader of the FF Plus in North West.
The two men, Pieter Doorewaard and Phillip Schutte, have been released on bail of R5 000 each and had to hand over their passports.
Groenewald said the FF Plus asks that the case must be allowed to follow the legal course unhindered and that people such as Premier Supra Mahumapelo should refrain from uttering any further racist remarks.
According to media reports, Mahumapelo said at the boy’s funeral that he died “at the hands of white people”. He also said that the people "at whose hands" the boy was with his death, are "Afrikaners from Coligny".